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I cannot ungroup my plane model, to animate the propellers: // Error: Can't ungroup leaf-level transforms

1781navi — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:57:50 GMT

Hello, I do not know how, my plane has grouped itself. once the modeling is finished

I cannot ungroup my plane model, to animate the propellers: // Error: Can't ungroup leaf-level transforms

thank you and kind regards,

1781navi

Re: I cannot ungroup my plane model, to animate the propellers: // Error: Can't ungroup leaf-level transforms

mcw0 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:57:01 GMT

All the various meshes of the airplane has been combined, not grouped. So ungrouping will not work. You need to separate the model.

Re: I cannot ungroup my plane model, to animate the propellers: // Error: Can't ungroup leaf-level transforms

mcw0 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 01:39:13 GMT

If all you want to do is to animate the propellers as separate objects. Might I suggest making a duplicate of your entire plane. Then delete everything but the propellers. Then on your original airplane, delete the propellers. Now you have 2 objects, one being the propellers that you can animate separate from the rest of the airplane.

PS. The process of deletion is to select the faces that you don't need and delete those. You can select one face and convert it to a shell to speed up the process.

Re: I cannot ungroup my plane model, to animate the propellers: // Error: Can't ungroup leaf-level transforms

1781navi — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:38:08 GMT

I made it. First with detach faces and then using separate mesh